MEXTROPOLI ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
MEXTRÓPOLI is the most important Architecture and City Festival in the Americas, which brings together more than 80,000 people designing cities: students, citizens, professionals, tourists, creatives, public servants, artists, opinion leaders and experts in the field, to generate knowledge, exchange and a new vision of the city through architecture.
It activates reflection and the exchange of experiences through conferences, exhibitions, dialogue tables, workshops with experts, installations in public spaces, routes and specialized visits, book presentations, and other events.
It turns Mexico City into a powerful cultural, tourist, and citizen attraction by promoting reflection on: housing, mobility, public space, and equity, among other topics of urban interest. It is the meeting of culture through architecture.
ARCHITECTURE WITH SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY THEME IOF MEXTROPOLI 2022
Architecture “every day moves further away from being that discipline of pharaonic projects and is being understood for what it is: a discipline with social responsibility,” says Andrea Griborio, director of the Mextrópoli City and Architecture Festival. “It is necessary to understand that architects are here to make useful, sustainable habitats; we must understand the various ways of inhabiting space.”Claiming the social dimension of architecture and its potential to propose solutions to the urban challenges of the 21st century will be the focus of the reflections of the ninth edition of the Mextrópoli festival, which will take place from September 21 to 25 in the Mexican capital.
The meeting, which this year will be face-to-face, will be distinguished by including in its program the 12th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, organized by Spain. That the general theme of both meetings be “Living on the margins”, according to Andrea Griborio, has the purpose of making visible and putting on the table the social vocation that architecture has and should have.
“It is about how we can think or share practices that show that it can be something more and not just something decorative; how we architects can become instruments, tools or contribute to improving the quality of life of citizens”, explains the architect of Venezuelan origin.
LECTURES AT TEATRO METROPOLITANO
One of the hottest moments was this Wednesday, September 21, at the Metropólitan Theater in Mexico City, a series of master conferences welcoming the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival and, with it, the XII Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BIAU).
Among the participants in the impressive Teatro Metropólitan, with a capacity of more than 3,000 people, were presented: the Argentine architect Ana Falu, winner of the XII BIAU Lifetime Achievement Award, the Brazilian Marta Moreira, the Colombian Camilo Restrepo, the Chilean Cecilia Puga, the Spanish Iñaki Ábalos, the Mexican Loreta Castro, the Spanish Zaida Muxí and Josep María Montaner , the Swiss Simon Frommenwiler and Simon Hartmann, the English Jane Hall – Assemble, or the Mexican Tatiana Bilbao, and the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, presenting alternative ways of working.
On Sep 21, 2022 HHF co-founders Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler were invited for a lecture in Mexixo City at Mextrópoli, the XII Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. Under the title of Architectural Topographies the duo presented HHF strategies and methodologies concerning projects in Mexico, France, China and Switzerland to a live audience of circa 2,000 people.
